Trayvon Martin

Trayvon Benjamin Martin was an unarmed 17 year-old teen killed on January 26th 2012 at Sanford, Florida. 
Trayvon was with his father on a visit to his future stepmother at her townhouse.
On the evening of Jan. 26th, he was walking alone to the house from a convenience store. George Zimmerman, a member of the community watch saw the young man and immediatly reported him to the police because "he was suspicious". Several minutes after the call, there was an "altercation" between the two and Trayvon was shot in the chest.
Zimmerman was injured and said the kill was self-defence, and he was not charged. There was no evidence of neither of the facts ( self-defence or not ) so the police could not arrest him.
Following the death of Trayvon Martin, petitons, hashtags and protests were held and created. An online petition for an investigation collected over 2.2M signatures. 
The Black Lives Matter organisation was also created after Trayvon's death.
Later, national media focused on the case and Zimmerman was charged of second degree murder and manslaughter during July 2013.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Malik Thomas

Malik Thomas was 9 years old when he was BURNED ALIVE in Arizona, on May 22, 2006. Malik was murdered by the son of a white police officer and another classmate of his. They showered him with gasoline and set fire to the child and are still free after 14 years. The police had released very little information about the murder and after two weeks, they still said that ic could be an accident.  Another child, who was Mexican, said that he was also targeted for attack but ran before they could catch him. The officers said that he was playing and found a bottle of gasoline and proceeded to throw lit matches at it, which makes no sense, because even a kid would know not to play with fire. sign JUSTICE FOR MALIK here
more»

Breonna Taylor

Breonna taylor was 26 years old medical technician who was fatally shot by the Lousiville police on March 13th, 2020. It was shortly after midnight when 3 police officers entered Breonna and her boyfriend's appartment. They force opened the door with a battering ram. The police was investigating two men selling drugs, and Breonna's appartment was supposedly where they would hide the drugs and receive packages. They did a search through the appartment, but no drugs were found. The police said they announced themselves and knocked several times, but neighbors stated that they heard no announcement and only a dispute, that made Kenneth Walker, Breonna's boyfriend, act in self-defence thinking someone was trying to break in. When the door was door, Walker attacked an officer blindly to the leg. The other officers then opened fire and shot randomly across the apartment: The kitchen, the hallway, the bathroom, living room and both bedrooms. Breonna was shot at least eight times a...
more»

Elijah Weatherspoon

Elijah Nicky Weatherspoon was an 18 year old man who died in South Carolina this June 26th. The young man went missing during a boating trip, and his body was later discovered on June 28th. The events that led to Elijah's death are unclear and treated by police as a person who drowned and that's it, but his family said that he could indeed swim. The investigation did not go further and his death is not reported by the news in any way.  The circumstances that has been told to the Weatherspoon family are confusing but there is still no investigation.  sign JUSTICE FOR ELIJAH here
more»